EN 4113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hazel Carby, The Communist Manifesto, Miscegenation
4 Dec 2016
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Economies have shifted from localized trade systems of feudal structure to capitalist system; this change saw the birth of the middle-class. The nineteenth-century was mostly about trying to resolve the various political events of the eighteenth-century (american revolution and french revolution) Abolition of slavery in the north: vermont in 1777 and all northern states in. 1804, marx- the communist manifesto 1848, women suffrage movement (fighting for the right to vote) convention was in 1848, american civil war 1861- 1865, and finally slavery was abolished in the us in 1869. Participated in black politics in the us during the second half of 19th century. Sometimes, even today, we hold back from doing something that we want because we know that our role does not involve that. The absence in her writing about these politics is a lacuna that we need to acknowledge as our place of ignorance; we must not make any judgments or jump to any conclusions.
